Services
Three core services, each scoped and priced up front, built around your processes and your people.
Services
Deliberately narrow scope. Every engagement is defined and priced up front, delivered around your processes and your people, and judged on what changes in the business — not on how much documentation it produced.
Enter your ISO 9001, IATF 16949 or customer audit knowing the position — protecting the certification your contracts depend on.
Outcome: no surprises on audit day, and process owners who can answer for their own areas.
Close findings first time and stop repeat failures — removing the rework, scrap and customer escalations they cause.
Outcome: findings closed once, causes removed at source, credibility restored with the customer.
Senior management systems judgement on call — without the cost of a permanent in-house compliance function.
Outcome: a system used day to day, internal audits that find real risk, and leadership visibility of performance.
Why leaders trust us
Talk & Trace is an independent advisory practice built on operational experience, not theory. Every recommendation is traceable to a clause, a record, or evidence an auditor will reasonably expect to see.
Talk & Trace is an independent advisory practice, not a certification body, registrar, or accreditation organisation.
Audit planning, field and supplier auditing, and nonconformance management under IATF 16949 and ISO 9001 — from the auditor's side of the table.
Quality management, procurement, supplier auditing and Supplier Technical Assistance in demanding manufacturing supply chains.
APQP, PPAP, FMEA, MSA and SPC applied to real launches and real corrective actions, not delivered as classroom theory.
Findings tied to records, data and clause requirements — with root cause statements written to survive challenge.
We advise only. We never certify, hold accreditation, or carry a commercial interest in your audit outcome.
Risk, cost and priority stated in business language so directors can make a decision in one meeting.
How we work
Four steps, no drawn-out discovery phase. Most clients move from first call to agreed scope within two weeks.
Twenty minutes on your audit timeline, open findings, and where the system feels thin. No preparation needed.
We review the relevant processes and records, then give you a prioritised picture of risk and effort.
Scope, deliverables, and price agreed in writing before any work starts. No open-ended retainers.
Coaching, closure support, or monthly advisory — delivered with your team in the lead so knowledge stays in-house.
Next step
A confidential 20-minute conversation with a senior practitioner. You will leave knowing what needs attention first, what it realistically takes to fix, and whether you need outside help at all.
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